Create More Compelling eBooks with InDesign CS5.5

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About This Episode

In this video, Terry White shows you all the new features in InDesign CS5.5 - including linked text, articles panel, and the ability to embed audio and video – that will help you design more engaging eBooks than ever before.

Learn the components and features of the application window, including the application bar and control panel, to navigate the parts of a file and to set up a page correctly from scratch or find important information about a file.

Build a new InDesign document from the very beginning. Learn the basic ingredients of a document and why understanding the intent of a document can make a difference. Understand how to change the document setup of a previously built document.

Apply consistent formatting to multiple paragraphs by using paragraph styles. Edit style definitions to update formatting throughout a document. Convert local formatting to a paragraph style, break links to styles, and override local formatting.

Edit and customize motion path presets, which allow you to animate images or text in InDesign CS5. Adjust the direction and speed of the animation, as well as edit the beginning and end points of the motion path.

Publish your InDesign project in a variety of Flash formats by using the enhanced Export dialog box in InDesign CS5. Set the background color and image handling resolution and leverage the new Flash TLF Text engine for enhanced text editability.

In this video, Terry White shows you all the new features in InDesign CS5.5 - including linked text, articles panel, and the ability to embed audio and video – that will help you design more engaging eBooks than ever before.

In this episode, you will learn how to link stories within the same document with InDesign CS5.5. This feature gives you great flexibility if you have duplicated content throughout an InDesign document that might need to be updated. Now, instead of having to update every instance, you can simply update the source text, and easily update all linked text frames!

In InDesign CS5.5, you can map paragraph and character styles directly to EPUB, HTML and PDF tags to ensure that styles you define in InDesign are exported appropriately. You can also add CSS class names and type n your own custom tags.

In this video, Terry White shows you how to create immersive digital magazines for tablet devices using InDesign CS5.5. He will show you some of the incredible interactivity you can add to your publications, such as an image sequence and the ability to pan and zoom on content, and show you how you can preview on your desktop using the content viewer for desktop.

Controlling Order of Content Export from InDesign CS5.5 to EPUB Without Changing your Layout

Creating and organizing articles in the Articles panel for export to EPUB, without changing layout or writing code. Also covers the improvements to the Anchored Object workflow, which is now as simple as dragging and dropping.

Learn how to create interactive panoramas for iPads and other mobile devices using the Digital Publishing Suite features in InDesign. Step through the entire process, from creating the source files to using the Overlay Creator panel.

Learn how to markup text with InDesign styles for HTML, EPUB, or tagged PDF output. Add CSS class names to the exported content, so that in EPUB/HTML export, you can differentiate between slight variations in styling, or when tags are mapped to the basic styles such as p, h1, and h2.

Everything that is placed into InDesign ends up in a frame. You can create frames from scratch, or if you "place" (import) text or images into a document, InDesign automatically creates the frame for you. We'll explore the use of frames in InDesign in this video.

The InDesign toolbar contains a lot of tools, many of which are hidden or "nested" underneath the tools you see initially. In this video you will see the primary tools used to select, rotate and size objects. You'll also learn how to use the Type tool to edit text and create frames with or without borders, switch tools using your keyboard, and navigate with the Hand and Zoom tools.

In this video you will learn a quick and easy method for cropping images in Adobe Illustrator CS6 and CS5. Using clipping masks allows you to retain the area of the image you cropped out as well as modify the clipping path later on.

In this video you will learn a versatile method for cropping images in Adobe Illustrator CS6 and CS5. Using opacity masks allows you to retain the area of the image you cropped out, modify the clipping path later, and use complex blending modes, transparencies, and knockout groups.